v Another home game against one of the favourites for a top six finish. Coventry beat us in the first round of the cup with our second team playing. Saturday with our first team out and Scott Twine coming in and filling that NO10 spot and the way we are playing i expect us to beat Coventry. Liam Manning has some head scratching to do with who starts interesting and exciting times ahead. 3-1 Bristol City
‘Going to be a handful’ – Bristol City vs Coventry City https://the72.co.uk/2024/08/22/bristol-city-vs-coventry-city-prediction/
Team news and likely line-up Liam Manning has all sorts of welcome problems in selecting his starting XI for today given the performance, for the most part anyway, against Millwall and the fact that Scott Twine and Fally Mayulu made such positive impacts off the bench. It's a battle between Mayulu and Sinclair Armstrong to lead the line, while Manning also has to figure out how to incorporate Twine in light of Max Bird's excellent performance in the No10 spot last Saturday. Ross McCrorie, Sam Bell (both hamstring) and Yu Hirakawa (ankle) remain out, with the latter potentially returning after the international break. Rob Atkinson has returned to full training following his minor groin issue but may not be involved today as the defender is pencilled in to play for the U21s against Crewe Alexandra on Monday. New signing Marcus McGuane has been registered to play today, and has been given the No29 shirt, but given his lack of game time for Oxford United, the midfielder's likely to be on the bench, at best. Bristol City (4-2-3-1, probable): Max O'Leary; George Tanner, Zak Vyner, Rob Dickie, Cam Pring; Joe Williams, Jason Knight; Anis Mehmeti, Max Bird, Scott Twine; Sinclair Armstrong Today's referee Andrew Kitchen has the whistle for today's game at Ashton Gate in what will be his second fixture of the season having officiated Oxford United's 2-0 win over Norwich City on opening day. The Durham-born referee took charge of two City games last season: the 1-1 home draw with Watford and the 1-0 victory over Leicester City in BS3. He issued 103 yellow cards (3.12 per game) and three reds over 33 matches last term. Match stats Bristol City have won just one of their last seven league games against Coventry (D3 L3), though it was a 1-0 victory in this exact fixture last season. Coventry have failed to score in their last two away league games against City, last having a longer run without a goal at Ashton Gate between 1935 and 1960 (five games). City have won five of their last six home league games (D1) while nine of their 12 Championship victories under Liam Manning have come at Ashton Gate. Since the beginning of last season, Haji Wright is both Coventry City’s leading goalscorer (18 goals) and leading assister (7 assists) in the Championship. Meanwhile, only Morgan Whittaker (19) has scored more goals in the competition in that time amongst the division’s current players.
Tbh I’d take a point, Cov are no mugs, decent team and our first real test this season against a strong playoff team
They’ll probably be showing the Man Ure game and all the plastics will get cross if you ask them to switch it over to the City v Cov game
